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Food giants try to hijack GMO-labeling issue
They're banding together to quash state-level labeling campaigns, pushing instead for national labeling standards -- but only voluntary ones.
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The brutal cost of a cheap chicken
Two new books detail the inner workings of our factory-style poultry and meat system -- and the long history of our love/hate relationship with it.
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Frackers are guzzling water in drought-plagued areas
Most of the fracking underway in the U.S. is occurring in regions that are experiencing water stress.
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A Big Oil foe runs for Congress — as a Republican
Monte Shaw, head of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, hates Big Oil, which is refreshing -- but he loves the ethanol industry, which is not so refreshing.
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Pennsylvania to start fracking sensitive state forestland
Nearly half of Pennsylvania's shale-rich state forests have been leased to frackers. The state's Republican governor thinks that's not enough.
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Duke Energy’s coal-ash spill has utterly ruined a river
The Dan River in North Carolina has been turned into gray sludge -- and Duke Energy still hasn't figured out how to stop the leak.
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Hundreds of scientists urge EPA to reject Pebble Mine
A proposed gold and copper mine near Alaska’s fish-rich Bristol Bay would be a terrible idea, 360 scientists say in a letter to the EPA.
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Food hubs: Sustainable agriculture’s missing link
Before food hubs were trendy, Veritable Vegetable was figuring out how to make the concept work.
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Will Obama do the right thing on ozone and smog this time around?
Obama has been as bad as Bush when it comes to curbing ground-level ozone pollution. But soon he'll have another chance to get ozone rules right.
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Can we save Chesapeake Bay from chicken crap?
A bill in Maryland would make poultry producers pay five cents a bird to help protect the bay from chicken-waste runoff.
